What is Application Software? Definition & Type of Application Software

Application Software

A application software is collection of programs which is developed by the programmer and it can be used by the End-users. The persons who can use of that particular  application  is called End-user , So we are all end-users.

Already we may have heard and talking about the uses of an "Application or App". But exactly what is that mean of that ?. Today we are using the mobile technology called smart phones which have containing apps by default. The term "app" it is short as application software, which has since become very popular in the year 2010 .

An app is one type of applications software that will allow to perform the specific task of a mobile.

A Applications which is use for desktop or laptop, computer are called as desktop applications, Example of an application software such as include word processor, a spreadsheet, an accounting application, a media player, or photo editor.

The purpose of application software is used to develop the "Software or projects for Organisations sectors ". Some of the organisation are

1.Financial Sector

The financial services are the economic services  provided by the  finance industry. Some of the services are providing the application software by the financial  sectors like :

Example:-  Banking , credit card , Insurance , Accountancy , consumer finance, investing funds etc...

2.Health Care Sector 

Health care industry are also called the medical industry or health economy. So some of the services are providing the application software  by the health care sectors like :

Example:-  Cardiologist, Dermatologist,  Neurologist etc...

3.Educational Sector 

Education is process of facilitating  learning or acquisition  of knowledge , skills, values, belief and habits. Some of the services are providing the application software by the educational sector like :

Example:- Colleges, Universities, Schools, Institutions etc...

4.Transportation Sector

Transportation sector is the process of transforming  the goods and services from one place to another place. some of the services are providing the applications software by the Transportation sector like:

Example:-  Railways, Airways, Roadways, Seaways etc...

A  application software are classified in to two types, They are :

1. Front-end Technology
2. Back-end Technology

1.Front-End Technology

In software industry, The term front-end refer to the separation of concern for the presentation layer (front end). A Front-end technology is also known as a look and feel applications. It may be prefer as different types in the software industry which is shown in below points.


➤ In Content Management System, The term front end and back end technology may refers to the end-user facing views of the CMS and administrative views.
➤ In speech synthesis, The front end  refer to the synthesis system which is convert to the input text as a symbolic phonetics presentations.  

➤ For the major computer subsystem, a graphical  file manager  is a front end to the computer file systems and computer shell interface with operating system.

Example:-  Google maps, Windows (Operating System).  

In the real time industry to develop the front-end application we can use the following languages.

They are :

1. HTML
2. PHP? 
3. .Net (Micro-soft company)
4. Applets 
5. Swings
6. AWT
7. Developer 2000 (Oracle corporation)

The above languages are the most useful programming languages to develop the front end applications in the real industry.

2.Back-End Technology

A Back-End technology is nothing but data Persistence which is to store the data permanently in the  data base. If a user will see and fill the Interent application form after click the submit button then all the data will be store into the Database.

➤ In Content Management System, The term front end and back end technology may refers to the end-user facing views of the CMS and administrative views.
➤ In back end technology converts the symbolic phonetics represents into actual sounds.

In the real time industry to develop the back-end technology we can use the following languages like. They are:  

1. SQL
2. Pl-SQL
3. Oracle 
4. SQL Server (Micro-soft Company)
5. RDBMS
6. DBA 

The above languages are the most useful programming languages to develop the back end applications in the real industry.

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